Sci-Tech

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday flagged off Maruti Suzuki's first electric vehicle e-Vitara from the Hansalpur manufacturing facility in Gujarat. The made-in-India Maruti e-Vitara will be exported to more than 100 countries, including Japan. Modi also inaugurated the lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility by Suzuki,...

Jaipur: A fossil of a phytosaur species from the Jurassic period has been discovered in Megha village of Jaisalmer. Scientists estimate its age at around 201 million years, making it one of the oldest fossils ever found in the country and the first phytosaur fossil...

Bhubaneswar: To attract investment, the Odisha government Monday approved Electronics Component Manufacturing Policy and IT Policy, an official said. The state cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, this evening has approved the two policies. The Electronics Component Manufacturing policy aims to generate...

New Delhi: OpenAI Monday introduced an India-first initiative that aims to empower educators with AI tools and training, as it announced a new research collaboration with IIT Madras, backed by USD 500,000 in funding from the ChatGPT-maker. The push on education comes at a time...

Bikaner: The Indian Air Force's MiG-21 fighter jets, the backbone of its combat fleet for over six decades, made their last operational flights at the Nal Air Force Station in Bikaner, a month ahead of the formal retirement ceremony to be held in Chandigarh September...

New Delhi: Undergoing survival tests in a simulated environment, learning photography to document space experience and a team kayaking off the Mexican coast to foster camaraderie, these were some of the activities that the crew of Axiom-4 had engaged in before setting off on the...

Bengaluru: ISRO Sunday successfully carried out the first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) to validate the parachute-based deceleration system for the upcoming Gaganyaan mission. An ISRO official told PTI that the end-to-end demonstration was conducted near Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The exercise was jointly executed...

New Delhi/Balasore: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully carried out the maiden flight tests of the Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced Sunday. The tests were conducted at 12.30 p.m. Saturday (August 23) off the coast of...

New Delhi: India plans to launch more than 100 satellites over the next 15 years, and it will be a mix of government technology missions and private sector-led operational missions, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said in New Delhi Saturday. He also released a...

Washington: President Donald Trump said that Intel has agreed to give the US government a 10 per cent stake in its business. Speaking with reporters Friday, Trump said the deal came out of a meeting last week with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan — which...